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Signals from the annual accounts, the CBE and the Official Gazette, each with its threshold and source. No score, no verdict.
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Negative equity NBB
More debt than assets in 1 of the last 4 fiscal years.
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Two loss years in a row NBB
Negative result in 2024 and 2025.
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Tight liquidity NBB
Cash and receivables cover 43 % of short-term debt in 2025; threshold 65 %.
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Shrinking team NBB
FTE fell two years in a row, from 33.4 to 27.1.
Financials
Financial year 2025
SOCOTEC BELGIUM from Liège, company number BE0862742249, closed financial year 2025 with a result of € -1.2 million after tax. For that financial year SOCOTEC BELGIUM recorded a gross margin of € 1.7 million and equity of € -843,376. Compared with financial year 2024, the result moved from € -387,746 to € -1.2 million. The company made a loss. More debts than assets. High debts against a small own buffer. The most recent annual accounts were filed with the National Bank of Belgium on July 24, 2026.
€ -843,376
▼ € 1.2 million vs 2024
Assets minus debts, by the books. What is left if everything were sold and paid today.
€ -1.2 million
▼ 212 % more loss than in 2024
Profit after tax over the fiscal year.
€ 218,605
▲ 25% vs 2024
Cash and bank balances on the last day of the fiscal year.
Loss, nothing to pay out
Reserves fell to € -2.4 million.
People and assets in 2025
27.1
▼ 4 vs 2024
Average over the fiscal year, from the social balance sheet.
€ 2.6 million
▼ 13% vs 2024
€ 96,200 per full-time equivalent. Payroll staff only. What the director pays themselves is already netted into the gross margin and is not shown separately in the accounts.
€ 22,275
▲ 1% vs 2024
Book value of vehicles, furniture and equipment.
Debts at end 2025
€ 1 million
▲ 32% vs 2024
Loans from banks and other lenders, long and short.
€ 2.7 million
▲ 43% vs 2024
Supplier invoices still open on the last day of the fiscal year.
€ 335,245
▼ 37% vs 2024
Taxes, VAT and social contributions still to pay.
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| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change 2024 → 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | € 5,141,373 | € 5,399,328 | - | - | |
| Gross margin | € 3,059,744 | € 3,529,443 | € 2,864,862 | € 1,738,771 | ▼ 39% |
| Profit after taxes | € 47,621 | € -147,166 | € -387,746 | € -1,209,027 | ▼ € 821,280 |
| Equity | € 900,563 | € 753,397 | € 365,651 | € -843,376 | ▼ € 1.2 million |
| Total debts | € 2,961,827 | € 2,868,063 | € 3,907,585 | € 4,488,720 | ▲ 15% |
| Cash | € 524,333 | € 196,676 | € 175,152 | € 218,605 | ▲ 25% |
| Land & buildings | - | € 44,242 | € 29,804 | € 16,708 | ▼ 44% |
| Retained profit | € -701,437 | € -848,603 | € -1,236,349 | € -2,445,376 | ▼ € 1.2 million |
| Bank debt | € 780,000 | € 730,000 | € 780,000 | € 1,030,000 | ▲ 32% |
| Balance sheet total | € 3,886,239 | € 3,790,060 | € 4,273,236 | € 3,645,344 | ▼ 15% |
| Employees (FTE) | 32.5 | 33.4 | 31.1 | 27.1 | ▼ 4 |
Key figures of SOCOTEC BELGIUM, fiscal years 2022 to 2025, from the annual accounts filed with the National Bank of Belgium.Next annual account (fiscal year 2026) expected before 31 July 2027.
What happened to SOCOTEC BELGIUM?
What happened at SOCOTEC BELGIUM in recent years, according to the Belgian Official Gazette, the CBE and the National Bank:
- New annual accounts for financial year 2025: loss of € 1.2 million. Source: NBB ↗
- Jen Marc FORT became a director. NBB
- Philippe BARBARY became a director. NBB
- New establishment in Kraainem. KBO
- Start of the company according to the CBE. KBO
In short
From € 47,621 profit in 2022 to € 1.2 million loss in 2025.
Paid € 204,190 in corporate taxes since 2022.
Best year ever: 2022, with € 47,621 profit.
On average € 64,200 of value added per employee in 2025.
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De Lijn 8 June 2026 New annual account 2025
filed on 8 June 2026
What was left
€ 20 k ▼ 91%
Money in the bank
€ 178 k ▼ 98%
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Management
Behind SOCOTEC BELGIUM are Philippe BARBARY and Jen Marc FORT. Philippe BARBARY is also behind SOCOTEC BELGIUM and CONTROLE INDUSTRIEL BELGE - BELGISCHE INDUSTRIELE CONTROLE.
Directors
According to the 2025 annual accounts
Philippe BARBARY
Managing director
Also active at: SOCOTEC BELGIUM, CONTROLE INDUSTRIEL BELGE - BELGISCHE INDUSTRIELE CONTROLE
since 2023
Jen Marc FORT
Chairman of the board
since 2024
Establishments
Establishment units
Physical locations of this company
Chaussée de Tongres 257 box 12
4000 Liège
Steenweg op Mechelen 455
1950 Kraainem
Active since 17 February 2004
Who else lives here?
A building full of entrepreneurs or one very busy letterbox? Another 7 companies are registered at this address.
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Details
- Company number
- 0862.742.249
- VAT number
- BE 0862.742.249
- Registered office
- Chaussée de Tongres 257 bus 12, 4000 Liège
- Names & denominations
- SOCOTEC BELGIUM
- Enterprise type
- Rechtspersoon
- Legal form
- Private limited company
- Legal situation
- Normale toestand
- Start date
- 16 January 2004
- Peppol
- Active · Active since 12 Dec 2025
- Contact
- +322 627 02 20
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